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“We hear everyday, ‘this isn’t me.’” Navigating tensions and opportunities to translate interests toward entrepreneurial making by Dahn, Maggie, Peppler, Kylie A., Ito, Mizuko

“…Out-of-school time (OST) makerspaces are spaces for youth to engage in exploratory practices and deepen STEM interests in personally meaningful ways. Many…”
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Recognition in makerspaces: Supporting opportunities for women to “make” a STEM career by Keune, Anna, Peppler, Kylie A., Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Making is a playful exploration of tools and materials to design personally meaningful artifacts, providing a particularly impactful entry point for…”
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Paper Circuits vs. Breadboards: Materializing Learners’ Powerful Ideas Around Circuitry and Layout Design by Peppler, Kylie A., Sedas, R. Mishael, Thompson, Naomi

“…This exploratory study compares how young people (ages 15–16) learn circuitry concepts and layout design principles important to electrical engineering using…”
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Youth, Technology, and DIY: Developing Participatory Competencies in Creative Media Production by Kafai, Yasmin B., Peppler, Kylie A., Lemke, Jay, Warschauer, Mark

“…In this article, the authors draw on findings from several recent studies, particularly the work on the new media-rich programming environment, Scratch, to…”
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Making sense and nonsense: Comparing mediated discourse and agential realist approaches to materiality in a preschool makerspace by Wohlwend, Karen E, Peppler, Kylie A, Keune, Anna, Thompson, Naomi

“…Two approaches to materiality (i.e. mediated discourse and agential realism) are compared to explore their usefulness in tracking literacies in action and…”
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Media Arts: Arts Education for a Digital Age by Peppler, Kylie A

“…Background/Context: New technologies have been largely absent in arts education curriculum even though they offer opportunities to address arts integration,…”
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Building creativity: collaborative learning and creativity in social media environments by Peppler, Kylie A., Solomou, Maria

“…Purpose - Using a systems-based approach to creativity and a sociocultural constructionist approach to learning, this study aims to highlight how creative…”
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From SuperGoo to Scratch: exploring creative digital media production in informal learning by Peppler, Kylie A., Kafai, Yasmin B.

“…Based on work in media studies, new literacy studies, applied linguistics, the arts and empirical research on the experiences of urban youths' informal media…”
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In Harmony: A technology-based music education model to enhance musical understanding and general learning skills by Portowitz, Adena, Peppler, Kylie A., Downton, Mike

“…This article reports on the practice and evaluation of a music education model, In Harmony, which utilizes new technologies and current theories of learning to…”
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Positive Impact of Arts Integration on Student Academic Achievement in English Language Arts by Peppler, Kylie A., Powell, Christy Wessel, Thompson, Naomi, Catterall, James

“…Amid the high-stakes testing environments in today's schools, we argue that high-quality arts integration positively influences student academic achievement…”
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Learning in the visual arts and the worldviews of young children by Catterall, James S., Peppler, Kylie A.

“…This paper reports a research study into the effects of rich, sustained visual arts instruction on 103 inner city 9-year-olds in two major US cities. We use…”
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Soft Circuits: Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics by Peppler, Kylie, Gresalfi, Melissa, Tekinbas, Katie Salen, Santo, Rafi, Buechley, Leah

“…Soft Circuitsintroduces students to the world of wearable technology. Using Modkit, an accessible DIY electronics toolkit, students learn to create e-textile…”
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Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch by Peppler, Kylie, Santo, Rafi, Gresalfi, Melissa, Tekinbas, Katie Salen, Sweeney, Linda Booth

“…Script Changersshows the ways that stories offer a lens for seeing the world as a series of systems. It provides opportunities for students to create…”
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Mentoring partnerships in a community technology centre: A constructionist approach for fostering equitable service learning by Kafai, Yasmin B., Desai, Shiv, Peppler, Kylie A., Chiu, Grace M., Moya, Jesse

“…Mentoring programmes have gained increasing popularity in institutions of higher education to support undergraduates in community service or outreach efforts…”
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Gaming the System: Designing with Gamestar Mechanic by Tekinbas, Katie Salen, Gresalfi, Melissa, Peppler, Kylie, Santo, Rafi, Gee, James Paul

“…Gaming the Systemdemonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and…”
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Short Circuits: Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics by Peppler, Kylie, Tekinbas, Katie Salen, Gresalfi, Melissa, Santo, Rafi, Cantrill, Christina

“…Short Circuitsoffers students opportunities to undertake physical computing projects, providing tools and methods for creating electronic puppets. Students…”
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Assessment Assemblage: Advancing Portfolio Practice through the Assessment Staging Theory by Davis-Soylu, Heidi J., Peppler, Kylie A., Hickey, Daniel T.

“…Arts education faces challenges from continual pressure for educational accountability. How should art educators assess inventive and divergent learning in…”
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The Computer Clubhouse: Constructionism and Creativity in Youth Communities. Technology, Education--Connections by Kafai, Yasmin B., Ed, Peppler, Kylie A., Ed, Chapman, Robbin N., Ed

“…This book is about the Computer Clubhouse--the idea and the place--that inspires youth to think about themselves as competent, creative, and critical learners…”
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Positive Impact of Arts Integration on Student Academic Achievement in English Language Arts by Peppler, Kylie A., Powell, Christy Wessel, Thompson, Naomi, Catterall, James

“…Amid the high-stakes testing environments in today's schools, we argue that high-quality arts integration positively influences student academic achievement…”
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